kid I have always loved ‘90’s music‚ I particularly liked the boybands . It doesn’t help that my mother was once‚ what many call today‚ a fan girl. My first CD player was gifted to me at the age of seven‚ and it never left my side. I had quite the CD collection too‚ which included: almost every Disney movie soundtrack (This was around the time I fell in love with High School Musical)‚ Clay Aiken‚ N’SYNC and the Backstreet Boys. My father‚ other the other hand‚ hated ‘90’s music. He was more into rap
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WRACK TECHNIQUES Note book is a mixture of fact‚ fiction and speculation. Your task as reader is to discover the truth. Bradley makes use of historical incidents and real people. He also draws inspiration from other texts. This is called intertextuality. For example he draws on Conrad’s book Heart of Darkness to explore the darkness in man’s heart. His character Kurt parallels Conrad’s Kurtz. He also quotes from Ondaatje p.37 to develop his idea about maps “whose portraits have nothing to do with
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In The Handmaid’s Tale‚ much use is made of imagery; to enable the reader to create a more detailed mental picture of the novel’s action and also to intensify the emotive language used. In particular‚ Atwood uses many images involving flowers and plants. <br> <br>The main symbolic image that the flowers provide is that of life; in the first chapter of the novel Offered says " flowers: these are not to be dismissed. I am alive." Many of the flowers Offered encounters are in or around the house where
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Literacy Narrative On my 12th birthday I was given one of my favorite books‚ the original Grimm’s Fairy Tales‚ as a present from my aunt. I have been a big reader as long as I can remember so I was used to getting books as presents. This book was special. It was the first leather bound book I had ever owned‚ with its gorgeous blue cover and beautiful gold filigree. It felt special before I even opened the cover. Once I dug in and started to read the stories it opened up a whole new world to me. Receiving
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Film Techniques Folio Defining what you need to know about film ______________________________________________________________ What do you know about film? ( How did they do that? ( Why did they put that in? ( What was the point of that? ( Why did that character do that? ( What’s this film really about? These are just some of the questions which might arouse you when you are viewing‚ or studying‚ a film. And‚ clearly‚ your
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THE 1920’s: MODERNISM Main writers from this period Oscar Wilde Joseph Conrad W.B. Yeats Henry James Arnold Bennett John Galsworthy H.G. Wells Modernism first came to England at the end of 19th century in the work of Oscar Wilde‚ the early W.B. Yeats and Joseph Conrad and later‚ Henry James. But in the first decade and a half of the century there is a reaction against the avant-garde movement and there is a return to a more realistic and traditional kind of writing (Arnold Bennett
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An exemplum is a tale that teaches a moral lesson by an example. The Canterbury Tales displays exempla in “The Prologue‚” “The Pardoner’s Tale‚” and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” by using each character to teach a moral lesson to the audience. “The Prologue” shows the audience that some people are different from their appearances‚ “The Pardoner’s Tale” teaches the audience that greed is the root of all evil‚ and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” teaches the audience the true nature of women. “The Prologue”
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My Preference of The Doctor’s Tale The tale that I selected to read was the astronomy practicing Physician. This story of love‚ in hatred and bigotry was extremely interesting to read however‚ on the same note the wording was tremendously derived in Middle English tone which made a few sections difficult to understand and comprehend. The non-bible reading doctor’s tale is interesting from beginning to end‚ he paints a vivid picture of all his characters and there attributes using immense direct
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Arthur Dimmesdale was struggling with his mistakes for a large part of the novel but was torn between revealing his sins to the public and living in secrecy with Hester. The guilt that was living inside him was too much for him and it was eating away at him so he decided to come clean. He decided to do so in one of his church sermons. The language he used had a certain rhythm that conveyed his release of guilt and shame that was bottled up inside. Hawthorne writes‚ “the language in which the preacher
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A country under totalitarian regime shows no respect for peoples individuality and freedom. The Handmaids Tale‚ by Margaret Atwood‚ and Nineteen Eighty-Four‚ by George Orwell‚ are satirical novels that illustrate the danger of a totalitarian government and the dystopia that is being constructed. Censorship‚ defined as The act of hiding‚ removing‚ altering or destroying copies of art or writing so that general public access to it is partially or completely limited ‚ plays a significant role in helping
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